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You wanna remove her hippocampus?
One of them. It's a common p...

Swinder: You wanna remove her hippocampus?Derek: One of them. It's a common procedure for seizure patientsSwinder: Moving her hippocampus could compromise her memory, her speech, she wouldn't be able to practice medicine anymore.Derek: I have performed this surgery hundreds of times.Swinder: On cancer patients?Derek: No. But it's...Izzie: If you do the surgery I could lose my memory?Derek: It's unlikely but it's possible.Izzie: And, if you don't do the surgery...Swinder: We could shrink the tumor with IL2.Izzie: If the tumor doesn't kill me first.Derek: Why take the chance?Swinder: Have you even done a WADA test to see how her memory would be affected?Derek: Putting her brain to sleep and asking her to remember a bunch of flash cards is not an accurate assessment of the post surgical outcome.Swinder: But, it would tell us whether or not she could function afterwards. And, as Dr. Stevens primary physician...Derek: Fine I'll do it. It's unnecessary but...Swinder: The surgery is unnecessary.Derek: The tumor is already symptomatic, she's having hallucinations.

We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

When something begins, you generally have no idea how it's going to end. The house you're going to sell becomes your home, the roommates you were forced to take in become your family and the one night stand you were determined to forget becomes the love of your life.